New research suggests that life could thrive on exoplanets with unique atmospheres, expanding the definition of habitability ...

With the new year underway, it’s time to celebrate a remarkable 2024 full of citizen science with the Unistellar Network! Thousands of professional and amateur astronomers came together once again to ...

The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

Early sci-fi exoplanets were often simple Earth-like worlds, but as science advanced, so did their realism. From the desert planet Arrakis in Dune to the bizarre gas giant moons in Avatar, fictional ...

It is located in a star system less than 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest candidates for further research.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

It was just a rock, but when Timothy Lyons picked it up, he knew the Earth had stories to tell, and he wanted to find out ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.